Are You Holding Your Breath?
”When you inhale, you are taking strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.”
BKS Iyengar
Try standing or sitting absolutely still for any amount of time. What you get is tension … read more
Going Toward the Bloom
“Au beau milieu de l’hiver, je compris qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible.”
“In dead mid winter, I understood that there was an invincible summer within me.”
Albert Camus
Hurry, hurry. We are always in a … read more
Creating Sabbath
In my last blog, I wrote about practice. In previous blogs I wrote about simple steps—small stones to toss and begin the process of healing when life throws us a nasty curve. I wrote about journaling.
Here is another suggestion:… read more
Practice Does Not Make Perfect
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Doing poor or feeble practice in the worst of times is far more meritorious
than doing a good practice in the best of times.”
Prashant Iyengar
In … read more
The Secret of My Little Black Book
It’s true. The “secret of my success” is a little black book. Actually, mine is blue and white. It’s a journal, and the practice of keeping notes has provided moments of sanity when everything seems crazy.
We have to learn … read more
A Small Stone
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Anonymous
Ninety-nine percent of life is showing up.
Woody Allen
Whenever I need to take on anything new or focus on making myself better (heal the world, write a great novel or lose … read more
Re STORING: Filling your narrative with your own STORies
“A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.”
Anonymous
Much is written about resilience and definitely parents of children with special needs need plenty of it. One key to developing resilience is to allow the very … read more
THE MESSENGER AND THE MESSAGE
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Arriving fifteen weeks early, my niece was born weighing 2.2 pounds. How frightening for her parents, her … read more
WE ARE REALLY NOT ALONE!
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
John Lennon
It was a sunny April day and the doctor was saying something that I could barely take in: “Your son has cerebral palsy. If he walks, … read more